Thursday, January 10, 2019

Wednesday, January 09, 2019

PRAYER BEADS



"Prayer Beads." North Hill, Puyallup, Washington.

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"—but just as the golden infinite below us dulls down by stages / into blue waves, so what is past likewise loses life and light, / except for the yellow grass itself,"

—page 345, The Dying Grass: A Novel of the Nez Perce War by William T. Vollmann

Sunday, January 06, 2019

Saturday, January 05, 2019

HARD TO LOVE

"It was always hard to love a Government which, theoretically, was a mere machine and which could extend no sympathy to people in disaster, nor kindness to the impoverished."

—General O. O. Howard, 1907, quoted in The Dying Grass by William T. Vollmann

CASPAR DREAMS



Caspar dreams.

Caspar is the current resident North Pacific giant octopus at the Highline MaST Aquarium. Even though he was "hanging" from the top and side of his tank, and appeared to be sleeping, he was watching us. He would take one of his arms and wave just the tip of it right in front of our faces, teasing us, while the rest of his body remained immobile.